Diabulous

If someone is pulled over and found to possess a reasonable quantity of marijuana they will be charged with possession with intent to distribute. I'm wondering how they can prove the intent that they charge someone with.

Our justice system is based on "reasonable doubt". Since no one can look into another's mind to prove definitively what their intent actually was, isn't that a reasonable doubt if they say they weren't intending to distribute? Whether you get caught with one ounce or 50 pounds, no one but you actually knows with any certainty what you're intention was. If you had already been charged previously with distribution that will hurt your cause of course, or if you are actually caught in the act of selling.

About 15 years ago I was pulled over on my way home after purchasing a HP. I had a QP in my front right pocket and another QP in the trunk. The cop wouldn't tell me why he had pulled me over. In fact, he blatantly ignored the question like I wasn't speaking at all. He told me to empty my pockets onto the trunk of my car. Rather than watch me do this, he walked up to the passenger side of my car to talk to my friend who was still sitting inside the car. By then, there were two more cop cars that had pulled up but I had to take my chances. I pulled out the QP and threw it into the ditch beside the road. As soon as it hit the ground a flashlight shined right where it landed. I looked up and there was a cop walking up from behind the first car that I hadn't seen because of all the flashing lights and floodlights shining on me. Apparently he thought it was something else or an animal or something because he just turned off the flashlight and didn't mention it. I guess they didn't feel the need to search the car or they would have found the other QP in the trunk. They let us go, never telling us why we were stopped. We went back the next day and got the other QP out of the ditch. Wouldn't that have been a sweet find for someone walking down the road!

Anyway, if the HP would have been found they would have charged me with intent to distribute even though that was not my intention at all. In fact, once the HP got to my house none of it ever left my house except in the form of smoke.

So my question is how can they actually prove intent and how can you fight an intent charge if you know you're intention was not what they claim it was?

And yes I used up my reserves of good luck that day. I've had nothing but bad luck ever since.

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